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Lemmy, AITA for disliking copied content from Reddit in the AmITheAsshole community? (midwest.social)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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So, I get that someone is trying to populate this community with posts using the lemmit.online bot. And that the vast majority of us are coming from Reddit. And that AITA is a staple community that we’re used to seeing in our feeds.

However, it seems like that just copying content into an otherwise empty community is just feeding a sterile wasteland. There is almost no engagement on the copied posts, and worse: I think it will smother any actual new content that gets posted in this wasteland of copied content. (I stand corrected, after trying to post this there I found out that only mods have priveleges to post. It’s worse than I thought, and I’ll probably just block it from my feed if it’s only a Reddit echo chamber)

What do you think, AITA?

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[–] [email protected] 30 points 1 year ago (3 children)

A bit off-topic, but AITA is a community I don't mind if it stays on Reddit.

It's either fake stories, people looking for approval, people who don't mind their own lives, or arm-chair psychologists taking guesses.

[–] [email protected] 17 points 1 year ago

Yeah I would not miss AITA.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Ugh you're right. I admit I've scrolled through AITA more often than I should, because something about it is really entertaining.

But it's like junk food, I don't really feel good when I'm done with it. More vindictive, like those revenge subs. Being off Reddit has reduced how much I see it, and I don't particularly want to go back to that.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

This

[–] [email protected] 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

TONS of rage bait, but people ate it up. 🤦‍♀️

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

“AITA for not going to my son’s wedding rehersal?…..”

“….because I have a major surgery that day and I will die if I don’t get the surgery”

“AITA for calling my wife a whore in bed?”

“…she told me its her kink”